M 101 · Galaxy · Ursa Major

Pinwheel Galaxy

Also known as NGC 5457 · PGC 50063 · UGC 8981

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Type

Galaxy

Constellation

Ursa Major

Position (J2000)

14h 03m 13s · +54° 20′ 56″

Discovered

by Pierre Méchain in 1781

Pictures

1

Magnitude

7.9

visual

Size

24′ × 23.1′

Distance

~23,000,000 ly

Best months

Mar–May

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.